A trainee solicitor at one of the UK’s leading law firms is facing disciplinary action after he drunkenly described his job as ‘f****** people over for money’ in a student video.

The unnamed Clifford Chance trainee is filmed describing himself as a ‘City lad’ on the online video for Oxford student newspaper Cherwell.

The interview was carried out for the student newspaper’s series of online videos, Shark Tales, which features student journalist Toby Mather speaking to drunken students on the streets in the early hours of the morning.

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On camera: A trainee solicitor could lose his job after describing his work as ‘f****** people over for money’ in a drunken interview

The trainee solicitor tells Mr Mather ‘I f****** love the ladness’ which he described as ‘just basically f****** people over for money’.

He later adds: ‘I refuse my consent for this to go on the internet and I will sue you if you put it on’.

According to The Independent, a Clifford Chance, spokesman has said one of the firm’s trainee lawyers was now facing disciplinary action.

7 Comments

Pissed-off-FrankSeptember 15, 2013 @ 2:45 am

Clifford Chance has principles and standards? Wow! I learn something new every day. OT, but I’ve hardly seen it mentioned elsewhere: As part of the UK’s never ending fight for freedom and democracy world wide, we have the ongoing Defence & Security Equipment international (the London arms fair). Here by invitation are representatives from such staunch democracy-supporters as Algeria, Bahrain, Iraq, Oman, United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Afghanistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan and Libya. Good grief. http://www.caat.org.uk/press/press-release.php?url=20130909prs

svenSeptember 15, 2013 @ 4:03 pm

What this MAN says is TRUE. My Father who worked for his mates firm of solicitors never having passed his finals ( my Grandfather was a solicitor ) told me as a youngster that people of lower social classes were to be used and abused. Even then I KNEW that was WRONG. But it is how the upper classes are indoctrinated, it is what they are taught, it is what they do and most of the time with a smile. I think I must have been a throw-back and got the empathy that missed my families previous generations. They ARE professional liars, deliberately using words to confuse the public and take the money. This man must have some sort of conscience, or maybe he thought he was amongst equals, and safe.

svenSeptember 15, 2013 @ 4:12 pm

If he genuinely has a conscience, he isn’t amongst his equals, he towers above them. and I can only hope he puts his knowledge to good use.

InfernoSeptember 15, 2013 @ 8:19 pm

Thx to the insurance company. They’re telling us that if one of their employees tells the truth it’s a sackable offence. Morons!

DecencySeptember 16, 2013 @ 10:36 am

A Waste of Money many Solicitors are

mrs WorriedSeptember 16, 2013 @ 9:08 pm

An honest solicitor? Well there`s a rarity! Actually, not honest just gloating about his power and dishonesty. Probably most of them feel the same, but not pissed enough to admit it.

It is I onlySeptember 17, 2013 @ 7:36 am

The first thing we do, let’s kill all the lawyers.

–William Shakespeare, Henry VI, Part 2

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